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Download it and read it. The New York Times spins it here. John Hinderaker at Power Line and Austin Bay have excellent analysis of the letter. John’s conclusion: Zawahiri’s letter is a valuable document. It lays out al Qaeda’s strategy for victory in Iraq and the world. It demonstrates al Qaeda’s growing unpopularity, its weakness [...]

The Bush administration is responding to charges of cronyism in the bidding process by…expanding the pool of privileged cronies. The government-sponsored racial spoils system will now get a boost from Hurricane Katrina (via Breitbart/AP): “This administration is reaching out to companies of all sizes, especially minority-owned enterprises, to guarantee that those seeking to join the [...]

Laura was on Hannity & Colmes tonight making some of the most cogent, non-sexist, and non-elitist arguments against Harriet Miers I’ve seen and heard over the last excruciating week. Watch the whole thing at The Political Teen (thanks, Ian). I’m with Miniter: Laura Ingraham for SCOTUS!

So, the First Lady pulled out the sexism card in her defense of Harriet Miers on NBC’s Today Show. Matt Lauer lapped it up. Did the White House not inform Mrs. Bush that some of the most vocal criticism and questioning of the nomination comes from conservative women? Or does she buy into the Left’s [...]

Which is lamer: Comedian Margaret Cho complaining that I’m a racist (what, getting bored of dropping f-bombs on President Bush?) or Philadelphia Daily News columnist Dan Gross parroting her empty smear and calling it journalism? Gross makes Cho’s ad hominem attack his lead headlined item today and describes me as “a syndicated conservative columnist who [...]

Bunch of readers and bloggers are sending word of this weird story: A man who fatally shot himself in his University City condominium during a standoff with San Diego police was identified Saturday as a 29-year-old student. An autopsy is scheduled tomorrow on the body of Khaled Yasufi, medical examiner Investigator Sal Rodriguez said. Police [...]

Another good reason not to move back to the Katrina disaster area: A Second Amendment group is expressing “shock and disbelief” that people seeking refuge at a FEMA compound outside Baker, La., may not bring their firearms with them. According to a report that aired on the Lehrer News Hour on Thursday, displaced New Orleans [...]

How pathetic. Related background here.

I’m hearing from many Atlanta-area readers in the wake of the Georgia Tech explosive device discoveries. Some are chalking up the incident as a run-of-the-mill prank. Could very well be. In a post-9/11 world, though, such incidents can no longer be taken lightly. The local cops were right not to rule out the worst possibilities. [...]

***scroll for updates…another “suspicious device” found in Gwinnett County…explosive device found Friday at UCLA…10/12 Ga Techfreshman confesses*** Checking it out (from WXIA-TV in Atlanta via Drudge): Three explosive devices found in a courtyard between two Georgia Tech dormitories on the East Campus Monday morning were part of a “terrorist act,” an Atlanta police official said. [...]

Louis Farrakhan and his followers, still in the grip of Katrina Derangement Syndrome, will be making landfall in Washington, D.C., this Saturday to mark the 10th anniversary of the “Million Man March.” The new campaign is being dubbed the “Millions More Movement” and Farrakhan is shamelessly exploiting the Katrina tragedy to entice new recruits to [...]

Check out John Hawkins’ poll of conservative bloggers on the Miers nomination. Negative sentiment and uncertainty predominate. Compare with the Washington Times’ survey of Republican senators–nearly half of whom say they, too, remain unconvinced that Harriet Miers is worthy of being confirmed to the Supreme Court. And read John Fund (go ahead, White House, call [...]

***updated with photo/links…Shawn Wasson at Bare Knuckle Politics has the video/police department comment on criminal investigation…*** Caught on tape: Two New Orleans police officers repeatedly punched a 64-year-old man accused of public intoxication, and another city officer assaulted an Associated Press Television News producer as a cameraman taped the confrontations. There will be a criminal [...]

I have answered the White House’s call for energy conservation…by conserving my energy and laying off the Harriet Miers nomination for a brief spell. In the meantime, read Ed Morrissey’s excellent piece in the Washington Post about the rift on the right. Ed has additional thoughts and a round-up of reax to his piece here. [...]

The death toll from yesterday’s massive earthquake in South Asia is reaching mind-numbing levels–30,000 and rising. How to help? Here’s a list of charities. These overseas banks are accepting donations. The Star newspaper in Malaysia has started a fund. World Vision is lending a hand. A summary of UNICEF’s efforts here. Donate here. ReliefWeb’s South [...]

Hey everyone – sorry for the non-blogging yesterday. Was in California for the Bakersfield Business Conference. Here’s a write-up. Just got back from our weekly family breakfast at IHOP. Regular blogging will resume shortly. In the meantime, here’s my list of top 5 things to do to keep your kids occupied at IHOP: 5. Paper [...]

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That’s what Neal Boortz is calling it. More at Wizbang. Point Five spoofs. So does Laurence Simon. Charles Johnson at LGF: “This completes the transformation of the Nobel Peace Prize into a politically-motivated sideshow, with no connection whatsoever to reality.”

Just getting word: ICE nominee Julie Myers voted out of the Homeland Security Committee 7-2. Sigh.

Blogger Mark Tapscott, who has been breaking news on the Oklahoma bomber story, is scheduled to be on FOX News today at 12:45pm EDT. Tune in. *** WND’s Jayna Davis and Jon Dougherty report on the Justice Department’s move to seal the search warrant in the Hinrichs case: The warrant used to execute a search [...]

Not that the Bush White House stance is any different, but here’s a report from Meghan Clyne of the New York Sun (who has been doing fabulous work lately) on Hillary Clinton’s border hypocrisy. Hat tip: GOP and the City

ABP: Will James Dobson be called to testify at Miers’ hearing? Rob Sama: Remember Pamela Harriman? John Stephenson: ACLU sues on behalf of New Orleans prisoners Bob Martin: Bali mastermind hiding in the Philippines? Lone Star Times on NYC terrorism funding. Buy a cool Liberty Film Festival 2005 poster.

Police in New York City are investigating a terror threat to the NYC subway system. ABC News reports: The New York City Police Department is investigating what it deems a credible tip that 19 operatives have been deployed to New York to place bombs in the subway, and security in the subways will be increased, [...]

***update: live Norman, OK police department press conference scheduled for 3pm EDT/2pm CDT…will be carried on channeloklahoma.com…scroll for more updates/reax…*** Blogs continue to cover the Oklahoma suicide bomber story being ignored by the national MSM. Here’s the latest: Zombietime highlights an aerial photo of the crime scene and has an excellent round-up of links. Mark [...]

Well, well, well. The NYTimes has finally, finally seen fit to print a story on the Democrats’ credit report fraud scandal. The story appears on p. 20 in the print edition and online here. Here’s the fair and balanced lead: National Republicans, who face an uphill battle in their efforts to capture the open United [...]

Via WaPo: A Defense Department analyst pleaded guilty yesterday to passing government secrets to two employees of a pro-Israel lobbying group and revealed for the first time that he also gave classified information directly to an Israeli government official in Washington. Lawrence A. Franklin told a judge in U.S. District Court in Alexandria that he [...]

…more than you can chew. Especially if you can’t chew. (Hat tip: Two Babes and a Brain)

Drudge is headlining an ABC News story on a deeply disturbing espionage case at the White House involving a naturalized American of Filipino descent who worked for Vice President Dick Cheney (and also Al Gore). Both the FBI and CIA are calling it the first case of espionage in the White House in modern history. [...]

Veteran journalist/blogger Mark Tapscott has an exclusive: A Lincoln Town Car believed driven by OU Suicide Bomber Joel Henry Hinrichs III remains in the parking lot of the apartment where he lived and a U.S. Department of Justice inventory of the contents found by law enforcement officials is visible on the seat, Tapscott’s Copy Desk [...]

Here’s another eminent domain horror story in the making. Ian T. Shearn of the Newark Star-Ledger reports: On May 21, Albert G. Mauti Jr. and his cousin Joseph hosted a fundraiser for Assemblyman Joseph Cryan at the Westmount Country Club in Passaic County. The two developers and family members picked up the $10,400 dinner tab, [...]